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The examinations will begin soon! Below are some tips to help you prepare.

Plan Your Study Time

Make your study schedule practical, flexible and realistic. Your Library provides over 4,000 seats for your quiet study during the daytime. The Library has also implemented the following special arrangements.

The University Library will be open to CUHK alumni on the CUHK Alumni Homecoming Day. We are expecting many visitors, but will try to minimize any disruption. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused....

From 9:30 p.m., November 22, 2018 to 9:00 a.m., December 22, 2018, New Asia College Ch’ien Mu Library will open its Late Reading Room on the lower ground floor of the Library building 24 hours daily during the examination period.

During this period, the University Security Unit will have officers patrolling the area at night to ensure the safety of the users and the good order of the Room.

Date : 19 November - 14 December, 2018 Venue: New Asia College Ch'ien Mu Library Statement: To raise the literacy level and cultural awareness of students, the Chinese Language Teaching Development Centre of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature (Chinese Department), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) organised the third "Literary CUHK" essay competition. After nearly half a year of articles collection and review, we are pleased to announce that 24 participants were given the awards. Winners of this year’s competition included students, alumni and research students from different faculties and departments, proven that literature does not fixate with any particular school or faculty and belongs to every one who deeply connects with CUHK...

To shorten the waiting time for a Faculty Study Room, starting from 13 November 2018, there will only be one queue for all the Faculty Study Rooms located at University Library, Chung Chi Library and United College Library. When a room is available to you, you will receive a notification email with the room information. Applications submitted prior to 13 November 2018 will not be affected.

Due to the increased demand for students’ study spaces during the revision and examination period, access of the late reading rooms will be restricted to CU Link holders only between the period on 12 November at 9:30pm to 21 December 2018 at 9:00am, inclusive. The Late Reading Rooms of Chung Chi College Library and New Asia College Library during that period will not be opened to other library card holders and we apologize for any inconvenience caused.

This is an exhibition devoted to the images of Hong Kong taken by John Thomson (1837-1921), a pioneering Scottish photographer, geographer, and traveler.

Born in Edinburgh in June 1837, after his schooling Thomson worked for an optical and scientific instrument maker. He first travelled Asia in 1862, and undertook numerous journeys photographing countries including Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam and many areas in China over the next 10 years. In 1868, he established a studio in Hong Kong at Commercial Bank Building, Queen’s Road Central. He photographed Hong Kong’s landscapes, buildings, harbor and people. His excellent work in China and other Asian countries established him as a pioneer of photo-journalism and one of the most influential photographers of his time.

Artists: Poon Yin Tung and Wong Ka Yi Date: 5 – 16 November, 2018 Venue: New Asia Ch'ien Mu Library Statement: Who am I? Where am I? Who is trying to wake me up? Though the woken sleepwalker will not be scared to death, they would just be confused like ordinary people who woke up. For some cases, they might act violently due to the confusion. They open their eyes during sleepwalking. Not only can they walk freely, but also carry out habitual behavior. Since the brain is in dormant state, patient cannot distinguish any ongoing events. For example, inability in face recognition, no reaction to pain stimulation, talking to oneself without communication. We do not want to indulge in dreams. But who is stopping the sleepwalkers from wakening...

Fredrick Scott Archer (1813-1857) invented the photographic wet-collodion process in the 19th century. A mixture of a bromide, iodide or chloride dissolved in collodion was poured onto a tintype or clean glass plate for a few seconds. Once this reaction was complete, then moved on to expose, develop, fix and finally rinse it. As the glass plate is getting wet throughout the whole processes from adding the chemicals to taking the picture, this process is also known as “Wet Plate Collodion Photography”.

The University Library will be hosting an exhibition “Hong Kong Through the Lens of John Thomson” from 15 November 2018 to 28 February 2019. The majority of his photographic work was produced using what is known as the “wet-collodion” process. This workshop will introduce the...

The CUHK Library is going to organise a series of talks themed as “Standing Out from the Crowd: Author Identity”. Representatives from Chinese Academy of Sciences, ORCID, Clarivate Analytics, and Elsevier will share how to manage author identity, establish scholarly presence, optimise discoverability, and track research impact.

CUHK staff and postgraduates are all welcome to join!

Date Time Title Speaker Organisation 12 Nov (Mon) 10:30 – 11:30

ORCID: Persistent IDs in a World Where Machines Aid Research

Benefits of an ORCID ID for a researcher 6 Ways to make your ORCID ID work for you What ORCID does for institutions Mr. Brian Minihan Engagement Specialist, Oceania and Hong Kong, ORCID 11:30 – 12:30

The Library will be open to visitors on the CUHK Orientation Day for Undergraduate Admissions. We are expecting thousands of visits, but will try to minimize any disruption. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused....

The Library is pleased to arrange two talks for researchers and postgraduate students on writing and publishing with international journals. Wiley and Taylor & Francis, two of the world’s leading publishers of academic journals, will provide the talks. CUHK postgraduate students and researchers are all welcome to attend.

1. Author Strategies for Journal Publication: Tips for Early Career Researchers

22 Oct (Mon) 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

Topics:

How to select the right journal for your manuscript Submission tips How to survive peer review Publishing ethics How to promote your research and increase readership Introduction to Wiley Researcher Academy

Only through the “touching the ground” experience, can we understand the meaning of material culture in the past and explain to our contemporaries why we need to care about archaeological ruins. Our students learned a wide range of fieldwork skills and techniques through these meaningful archaeological internships. More important, the hands-on experience provides a great chance to them for better understanding the Bronze Age civilization in Sichuan and the Jiangkou sunken treasure legend. To team up with the underwater archaeology group, we want to present not only the fascinating archaeological experience “From the Mountains (Sichuan) to the Sea (Guangdong)” but also provide the general public some reflections inspired by these internships such as the variety and diversity of ancient...

All CUHK undergraduate students are welcome to attend the following library workshops. Postgraduate students are also welcome to attend if they wish. If you have the Digital Literacy Card that the Library sent out earlier in September, attending the following sessions can be counted towards the Digital Literacy Certificate Course.

Students, in groups of ten or more, can request library courses to suit their information needs and schedules.

Program 1: Develop an Effective Search Strategy for Your Assignment

This workshop covers the following to help you to:

Understand your reading lists, the difference between primary and secondary sources Expand the range of your search terms by using similar concepts and synonyms Use advanced search techniques such as...